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9 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

I’m curious if any other countries/states/regions 

/etc. have “dueling” holidays like we have in California/U.S today.

 

I was reminded today was Indigenous Peoples’ Day in California when my university welcomed indigenous groups to perform folk songs/dances on campus. However, other states and the federal government celebrate the day as Columbus Day, or in some cases, celebrate both as a holiday today. It’s a weird situation that rises from the legacy of colonization in the Americas and modern political discourse. I’m curious if there are situations of “duel” holidays like this in other places because it’s odd seeing different messaging for established holidays on the same day. 

 

May 3rd in Poland - Catholic feast of Queen Mary (to celebrate the victorious war vs Sweden in XVII century) and the Constitution Day to celebrate the 1791 Constitution. None of this has to do anything with current political discourse though May 3rd was strictly banned from celebrations during the communism era due to obvious anti-religious and anti-democratic stance.

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10 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

And I now realize I had plenty of alpine skiing on my TV programme guide in the first three months of the year 

I am working to the old English Julian Calendar, so 26th March = New Year’s Day.  

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10 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

I’m curious if any other countries/states/regions 

/etc. have “dueling” holidays like we have in California/U.S today.

 

I was reminded today was Indigenous Peoples’ Day in California when my university welcomed indigenous groups to perform folk songs/dances on campus. However, other states and the federal government celebrate the day as Columbus Day, or in some cases, celebrate both as a holiday today. It’s a weird situation that rises from the legacy of colonization in the Americas and modern political discourse. I’m curious if there are situations of “duel” holidays like this in other places because it’s odd seeing different messaging for established holidays on the same day. 

Nice.

 

But try to beat a "Independence Day" national holiday of a non-existing country, celebrated in two different countries the same day

 

28th. October., The Establishment of Czechoslovakia

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This is 

 

German Govt to burn unused COVID masks for fuel this winter.

 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-07/germany-to-burn-almost-800-million-unused-covid-masks

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In Boston they created 1 new variant of Covid that kills 80% of people  

 

 

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.livemint.com/news/this-new-man-made-covid-strain-is-5-times-more-infectious-with-80-kill-rate/amp-11666096752940.html&ved=2ahUKEwiv3qSX5er6AhVBQPEDHUQ8BScQFnoECA0QAQ&usg=AOvVaw0twnv19tS-7QKWPjSHjLqS

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Almost 3 days without Slovak/Slovenian accidents, thankfully the record was not broken

 

Yesterday Slovenian minister of foreign was received in Skopje by her collegue

 

https://n1info.si/novice/svet/diplomatski-spodrsljaj-med-obiskom-tanje-fajon-v-severni-makedoniji/

 

 

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Nigeria has stopped exporting Gas to europe 

 

Voice of Americahttps://www.voanews.com › nigeria...Nigerian Firm Says It Can't Ship Natural Gas After Flooding

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Thank You Bulgary!

 

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a guy in Slovakia bet 44 matches with an eventual win of 300000 EUR...

 

The first days he predicted theright results, after half of his matches ended correctly he decided to not risk anymore and returned (sold) the ticket back to the betting company for 4000 EUR...

 

Imagine that, later he found out that he correctly predicted also all the remaining games Poor guy

 

The crazy ticket

 

Spoiler

 

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Where i go i find videos of this man ...what a shame dance